![]() ![]() “If you ever look at my sister again, I will fucking kill you myself. ![]() “Don’t do this-” My words are cut off as I’m shoved down the front steps of the church. ![]() Two sets of arms grab me from behind and drag me back toward the doors. “I don’t know why you think you get to have an opinion, but get the hell out of here.” “You can’t marry him.” I’m pretty sure my words slur, but I don’t care. I might’ve miscalculated in my drunken haze. Whitney is dressed in white, looking like the perfect bride, aside from the militant look on her face as she stomps down the aisle toward me. My vision is fuzzy, no doubt from the two fifths of Scotch I used to try to drown out the fact that she’s marrying someone else today.īecause a Gable and a Riscoff can never be together.īut that doesn’t mean I’m going to watch Whitney Gable marry someone else and not say a goddamned word. Every head in the entire congregation swings toward the double doors I flung open. ![]()
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![]() Towards the end of the story, Thammavongsa writes: After asking her father how to pronounce the word “knife” at home one night, Joy is ridiculed for her mispronunciation the next day by “a yellow-haired girl in the class.” Unlike what her father taught her, Joy learns that the letter “k” in “knife” is actually silent. Centering the piece around a daughter of Laotian immigrants, Joy recounts her experience of navigating a classroom where questioning the standard pronunciation of English is not tolerated. Opening the collection with the short story “How to Pronounce Knife,” Thammavongsa juxtaposes standard English pronunciations with family loyalty. At 192 pages, the fourteen stories in How to Pronounce Knife are sharp, quick, and anchored in necessity. Using repetition to magnify and shrink her characters’ personal complexities and intimate hopes, Thammavongsa both invites readers in and shuts them out of the vulnerable worlds found within each piece. ![]() ![]() Unrelenting in her mastery of zoomed-in detail, Thammavongsa propels readers into the raw depths of what it means to love, desire, dream, ache, and grieve through stories that challenge and push against the problematic American standard of beauty, the dangers of assimilation, and the damaging effects of racism. How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa is not only a collection of stories, but a culmination of lives stripped bare for the naked eye. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kasienka has a pretty okay life in Poland. Friends, The Weight Of Water took me an hour at most to read and packs a lot of good into such a brief read. ![]() When I got home and saw that The Weight Of Water was on Netgalley, I immediately downloaded it and let it just sit on my Kindle, until recently when I was in the market for a short book to help me catch up on my goodreads goal. Aside from the best donuts ever and some delicious mimosas, one of the more notable things about the breakfast was that we got to pick through some ARCs and the way awesome publicists told us a little bit about the books they were excited for — one that I specifically remember was Dead Ends by Erin Jade Lange and the other was The Weight Of Water by Sarah Crossan. I was lucky enough to have the privilege of attending a brunch held by Bloomsbury Children’s at BEA. ![]() ![]() Rainfall coverage may come back up again late this afternoon and early this evening, but more widespread rain starts around midnight Thursday. ![]() We’re expecting rain chances to drop to around 60% during the afternoon as rain becomes a bit more scattered, but we won’t completely shake the rainfall. Yes, there will be some spots where rain briefly comes to a close, but a lack of rain won’t translate to temperatures that warm above freezing. Widespread and locally heavy rain is expected for much of the morning. 2 hours ago 100 Old Corvallis Rd Hamilton, MT 59840 United States + Google Map View Venue. Some spots will fare better than others, but many roads will be impassable all day long Wednesday. Temperature, chance of rain and wind speed in Twin Falls. PDF In this paper, we report, for the first time, the effect of the lowered freezing point in a 50 water / 50 antifreeze coolant (PAC) or 50 water. replacement of old gas line along Whitehorse Mercerville Rd from Rt. On top of the ice that is already on the ground from Tuesday’s rain, we’re likely going to see at least another tenth-to-quarter inch of ice on top of that. Heavy bursts of rain will again bring high ice totals again. The heaviest overnight rain has been along and east of I-35 where road conditions have been steadily deteriorating and the spots that haven’t seen as much rain overnight will after sunrise. Rain has already started during the overnight time period. ![]() ![]() Unless absolutely necessary, travel through Thursday morning is highly discouraged. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It reaffirms Sanderson’s place as one of contemporary fiction’s most intelligent-and unpredictable-voices.īrandon’s major books for the second half of 2016 are The Dark Talent, the final volume in Alcatraz Smedry’s autobiographical account of his battle against the Evil Librarians who secretly rule our world, and Arcanum Unbounded, the collection of short fiction in the Cosmere universe that includes the Mistborn series and the StormlightĪrchive, among others. ![]() Legion: Skin Deep is speculative fiction at it most highly developed. What follows is a visionary thriller about the potential uses of technology, the mysteries of the human personality, and the ancient human need to believe that death is not the end. He may have embedded something in the cells of his now dead body. The corpse is that of a pioneer in the field of experimental biotechnology, a man whose work concerned the use of the human body as a massive storage device. As the new story begins, Leeds and his “aspects” are hired by I3 (Innovative Information Incorporated) to recover a corpse stolen from the local morgue. Stephen Leeds, AKA “Legion,” is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. ![]() ![]() ![]() Naomi can feel her defenses failing, and knows that the connection her new life offers is something she’s always secretly craved. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the kindly residents of Sunrise Cove keep forcing her to open up-especially the determined Xander Keaton. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands of miles away from everything she’s ever known. ![]() No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can’t outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous. Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. She took a step back, then two, as the urge to run fell over her.” “She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot, heavy air. The riveting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Liar. ![]() ![]() The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy.īrought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. " Brilliantly original, messy and weird straight through. "Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!" -Charles Stross 15+ pages of new, original content, including a glossary of terms, in-universe writings, and more! ![]() ![]() ![]() The empty beach town becomes their playground, and as they sneak into abandoned summer homes, go sailing, walk naked under the stars, make love, and drink a great deal of gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal, with irrevocable consequences that reverberate through the rest of their lives. Just as they get ready to cut the trip short, a decadent and glamorous set suddenly sweep them up into their drama - Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away Max, a wealthy playboy and Clara's lover and Alma, Max's aloof and mysterious half-sister. It's the end of the season and the town is deserted.Īs they tentatively discover each other, they begin to realize that everyday married life might be disappointingly different from their happily-ever-after fantasy. Henry and Effie, young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon. 'Nods to classics like The Great Gatsby and Revolutionary Road' Independent ![]() Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 'Glamorous, nostalgic and very sexy' Paula Hawkins ![]() ![]() ![]() The Choephori, or The Libation Bearers: Third Episode (Lines 649-778).The Choephori, or The Libation Bearers: Second Stasimon (Lines 583-648).The Choephori, or The Libation Bearers: Second Episode (Lines 477-582).The Choephori, or The Libation Bearers: First Stasimon (Lines 305-476).The Choephori, or The Libation Bearers: First Episode (Lines 83-304).The Choephori, or The Libation Bearers: Parodos (Lines 22-82).The Choephori, or The Libation Bearers: Prologue (Lines 1-21).Agamemnon: Fourth Episode (Lines 1019-1410).Agamemnon: Fourth Stasimon (Lines 966-1018). ![]() Agamemnon: Third Episode (Lines 774-965).Agamemnon: Third Stasimon (Lines 686-773).Agamemnon: Second Episode (Lines 481-685).Agamemnon: Second Stasimon (Lines 367-480).Agamemnon: First Episode (Lines 270-366).Agamemnon: First Stasimon (Lines 83-269).About Agamemnon, The Choephori, and The Eumenides. ![]() ![]() ![]() The most interesting characters, however, are Shana and Benji. People sacrifice health, happiness, and basic comfort to watch over their loved ones, even as they are powerless to change the outcome of a predetermined fate.Īt another time, and in the hands of another writer, many of these characters-unpopular woman politicians, slimy bureaucrats, good-ol’-boy billionaires, right-wing militia leaders-would be cartoonish and one-dimensional, but since reality doesn’t conform to character development, they are just recognizable enough to send a chill racing up the reader’s spine and make you consider that a life lived under the guidance of machines might be preferable to our current reality. People use the onslaught of devastation to push their political agenda, even in the face of extinction. ![]() ![]() Despite the fact that the story opens with a singularity event, the ultimate downfall of humanity is not a disease pandemic or the uprising of robot overlord, but that we are so fundamentally human-our detriment and our grace. The apocalypse is not set 20 minutes in the future, and the story is concerned not with its aftermath but with the fact of its occurrence. Wendig isn’t so much holding up a mirror to society as he is opening the window. It’s an 800-page epic with the pace of a graphic novel, encompassing all these topics and more, set against the backdrop of a zombie-esque apocalypse. ![]() |